Job Openings at Omnia (Pty) LTD

Overview    

The Omnia Agriculture division’s range of specialised products and services are encompassed by its unique Nutriology® offering, which assists customers to optimise crop yield and quality.

Qualifications    

• A minimum of a BSc (Agronomy) and (Soil Science)  

Experience    

• Previous or similar work experience will be a definite advantage
• 5 years Agronomy experience

Duties    

• Provide professional fertilization and agronomic advice to farming enterprises
• Provide strategic support to Omnia representatives/agents 
• Work in close cooperation with Omnia Regional Management 
• Function as an integral part of and be central to the Omnia Marketing model

Job Competencies    

Requirements: 

• Sound knowledge of fertilizer and chemical products with fertilization recommendations in mind 
• Excellent language skills (verbal and written) 
• Presentation skills 
• Computer literacy 
• Interest in a dynamic marketing environment 
• Good grasp of the concepts of “client needs” and “adding value”

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Overview    

The purpose of this role is to plan and schedule all transport activities associated with the distribution of goods to their respective destinations to ensure that predefined inventory levels are maintained, logistics service providers are effectively and efficiently managed, and that the movement of goods is done in compliance with the standard operating procedures, regulations and legislations

Role impacts:

• Productivity
• Safety
• Customer and supplier relationships

Relationships:

• Management Team
• Customers
• Support Teams
• Production
• Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time

Qualifications    

• Degree in Transport management system or Supply & Logistics

Advantageous:

• Project Management

Experience    

• 3 years demonstrated experience as a Logistics coordinator
• 2 years demonstrated experience in a Warehouse or Logistics environment

Duties    

Transport scheduling management:

• Tschedule transport activities tensure that the appropriate materials are available for production and the necessary products
• are available for customers tavoid shortages and maintain stock levels.
• Tcoordinate and oversee supply activities executed by third party logistics service providers
• Tcoordinate the variables such as client demands, production capacity, lead times, storage space, and availability of transport
• tensure business objectives are met.

Administration:

• Tcontinuously gather and interpret data (i.e. costs, productivity and demand patterns) from the ERP, production, operation
• and 3rd party suppliers and translate the information intbusiness reports and presentations on a monthly basis
• Processing of leave
• Processing of purchase orders
• Operations efficiency:
• Ttrack and monitor any deviances from the operational plan
• Twork cross-functionally in the business tensure that relevant information as per the stipulated deadlines is received in
• order teffectively plan and organise logistics activities

SHERQ compliance:

• Tensure that all the regulatory and legislative requirements within the department/remit thus ensuring effective management of SHERQ and adherence tstipulated disciplines for continuous improvement of occupational Safety, Health, Environment,
• Risk and Quality that impact on any organisation.

Job Competencies    

• Proven written and verbal communication skills
• Proven computer literacy in Excel
• Microsoft AX
• Attention tdetail
• Problem solving skills
• Knowledge of distribution principles
• Knowledge of business, processes, resource allocation, monitoring, reviewing, identification of gaps techniques
• Knowledge of MRP planning and/or transport management systems
• Knowledge of relevant legislative and regulatory requirements, as well as understanding of standard contractual terms (SLA's)
• Knowledge of relevant national and cross-border regulatory requirements
• Working knowledge of road transportation regulations